John Templeton Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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I passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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It's a great advantage to be able to play people off against each other, isn't it? You go to Christie's and get a quote on something. And then you go to Phillips' and you tell them what Christie's has given you. I like auctions for artists.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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Pay attention to the big themes because that's what will help you earn ten times your money.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.
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One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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What's kept Java from being used as widely as possible is there hasn't been an Open Source implementation of it that's gotten really widespread use.
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I was one of those young girls that had no fear. I had goals. I knew that everything I touched would turn to gold.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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Whatever anybody eats is their business. I'm just a vegetarian because I personally want to be. If my sons want to go have a steak... then that's their decision. But coming from my hand, as their mother, I have to give them what I feel is good for them. I don't take a stand morally. This is for myself.
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It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
